1Title: Slovenský národný socializmus (Slovak National Socialism)

2Originally published: Slovenské pohľady, no. 11 (1940), pp. 613–623.

3Language: Slovak

4The excerpts used are from Rudolf Chmel, ed., Slovenská otázka v 20. storočí (Bratislava: Kalligram, 1997), pp. 279–290.

About the author

5Štefan Polakovič [1912, Chtelnica near Piešťany (Hun. Pöstyén, Ger. Pistyan)–1999, Buenos Aires]: philosopher and political activist. After receiving his secondary education at Trnava, he studied philosophy and theology at the Lateran University in Rome, where he was strongly influenced by Maurice Blondel’s philosophy of intuitive-reflective cognition, which distinguished him from other Slovak Christian thinkers, who were embedded mostly in neo-Thomism. During the independent Slovak State (1939–1945) he worked for the Propaganda Office and taught philosophy at the Slovak University in Bratislava. In 1939, he founded the first Slovak philosophical journal, Filozofický sborník (Philosophical mag